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Chapter 22

Jerusalem[a]

An oracle concerning the Valley of Vision:[b]

What possible reason can there be
    for all of you to have gone up on the housetops,
dwellers in a city full of commotion,
    a city exultant and filled with tumult?
Your slain did not fall by the sword,
    nor did they perish in battle.
All your leaders fled away together,
    only to be captured
    without a weapon to defend themselves.
All of them who were found were captured
    even though they had fled in all directions.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:1 Delighted by a passing military success, or by the defeat of Sennacherib in 701 B.C. (Isa 36–37), the city celebrates. The inhabitants are proud of their preparations for war, their strengthened defenses, and the subterranean channel which King Hezekiah had had dug in order to provide the city with drinking water.
  2. Isaiah 22:1 Valley of Vision: the valley around southeastern Jerusalem.